Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-07-23
NEWS CONDENSED.
MONTANA.

| MONTANA.
Fl. C. Nichols of Nashville, Tenn, has
gone into the horse business on the
Marias.
| Scots Ida and Larabie's Mantua-both
Deer Lodge horses-were among the win
ners at Butte.
Captain Reynolds is reported to be one
of the most capable company commanders
in the terrstory.
Hon. W. a. Clark missed the celonelcy
Of the Montana guards by the narrow
margin of two, the vote standing nine to
eleven.
Lieutenant Colonel Ross Deegan can
handle a battalion with the same grace
and proficiency that he can maneuvre a
company.
ALI the twenty-six of the Anaconda fur
naces are in full blast. The smelter is
now producing more matte than ever be-
fore in its history.
Gustavus Bogk of Butte is selling tick
cts in Helena for a rattle of horses, furni-
ture, ETC., amounting to over $4,000. He
wants to raise money to defend himself in
q law suit.
The steamer General Ferry, which ar
rived Sunday, left for down the river on
Monday. When she meets the Judith
she will take half the cargo OF that boat
which is too heavily loaded.
MINNESOTA.
Crop prospects were never better around
Marshall.
Duluth is to organize a law and order
league. The gamblers have been ordered
to leave.
The low stage of water at Saltwater dis
courages steamboat men. -
Polk county has 5000 acres of wheat
this year. Last years crop was 2,500,000
bushels.
Farmers around Mazeppa are discour-
aged by chinch bugs. Many are cutting
grain for hay.
G. FL Sherwood of Benson and Miss
Jennie T. Brown of Wiilmar were mar
ried at the latter place.
Steve Rhodes. a Verndale farmer,
knocked out Prof. Hotchkiss, q Fargo
fistic expert, in a fight at Motley.
A conference of ministers of the Nor
wegian Danish NJ. E. Church Of Minneso-
ia and the Red River Valley is in progress
at Duluth.
Charles Sellers, a lumberman of Tower,
St. Louis county, Minnesota, has died
from a painful accident. The saw in his
mill burst and one of the pieces fractured
his skull.
Owing to some misunderstanding with
the contractors the architect has ordered
work on the Mankato courthouse stopp-
ed. The building is up nearly n story.
The crops along the line of the Winona
& St. Peter road, from st. Peter to Tracy.
have escaped the chinch bug. Wheat,
corn, potatoes and grass are looking well,
and there is a general air Of thrift along
the line.
Crookston is already feeling the effects
of the Manitoba shops and stock yards,
over $4,000 in real estate having changed
hands the last ten days. The city coun-
Gil has appropriated $1,000 to furnish wa
ter for the Manitoba stock yards.
FOREIGN.
Dillon resumed debate on the land bill
and poured hot shot into the enemies
ranks.
The Liberals will give a banquet to
Parnell and his colleagues on the 26th
instant.
The Irish peers have formed an a~ssocia-
ton and raised $250,000 to help fight the
plan of campaign.
Charles Madden has been elected to
parliament to fill the vacant place for
Dublin university.
Ferdinand, the new king of Bulgaria, is |
moving heaven and earth to make him
self solid with Russia.
Senol Chinchilla, formerly captain gem
eral of Porta Rico, has been promised
the captain generalship of Cuba.
The St. James Gazette cites the capsiz-
ing 'of the yacht Mystery to prove that
British built yachts are much safer than
the American.
The new Bulgarian cabinet has been al
ready formed. The first act Of the new
president was to order the release of all
political prisoners.
Glad stone has sent to his agents in
Glasgow a dispatch approving Sir G. o..
candidature for the parlia-
mentary seat for Bridgeton district,
France.
In the chamber of deputies General
Ferron's report on the creation of
cavalry regiments and reforms
in the infantry was read and urgency
declared.
The North German Gazette advised
German residents of Paris to close their
places of business and not show them
or Thursday last, the anniversary
of the fall of the Basuile.
The French government has shown
such petty in the prosecutions
of sBoulanger that the general is more
than ever the idol Of the ~populace. Fears